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Veggie Burgers

“I just think it’s important to accommodate everybody. And I don’t think somebody should feel like they’re eating an inferior burger. If you’re going to do a veggie burger, it should have that richness and mouth feel and overall texture. When you pick it up, it should eat like a burger.”

veggie burgers coming of age

US 100 best beer bars

AGAINST THE GRAIN
If you’re gazing up at Manhattan’s skyline you might just miss this hole-in-the-wall drinking spot. The cozy beer joint was opened in 2007 by the owners of Grape and Grain, the adjacent wine bar; it’s an intimate, if not packed, drinking experience—the 35 m2 joint comfortably seats 15 people. Local and international beers spill over the near-70 bottle list, and small bites like pigs in a blanket ordered from next door ensure you’re not exploring the world of beer on an empty stomach. 620 E. 6th St.

BEER TABLE
When this bar first opened, super-passionate co-founders Justin and Tricia Phillips held weekly beer-cheese pairings that wowed locals. Today, it’s still small but exceptional beer list—which has included Birrificio Le Baladin Al-iksir on tap and Manhattan Meadery Brooklyn Buzz bottles—has an expanded food menu, and the staff is as determined as ever to help you match flavor profiles. Snack on an assortment of pickled sea beans, watermelon and eggs, or throw down $25 for a 3-course meal. 427 B. 7th Ave., beertable.com (serves food, sells beer to go)

BLIND TIGER
This vibrant Bleecker Street bar is a first name in beer, and it backs up the hype. Special brewery spotlights, weekly cheese pairings and an epic happy hour lasting from 11:30 to 20:00 draw a crowd, but the beer list keeps the party going: 28 rotating taps flow freely, while 3 casks and a bottle list 50-strong makes choosing nearly impossible. After all, how do you decide between a 2004 Brooklyn Black Chocolate Stout and Bear Republic Hop Rod Rye on cask? Line your stomach with Javier’s 7 Pepper Chili, and you can have both. 281 Bleecker St., blindtigeralehouse.com (serves food)

RATTLE ’N’ HUM
From brewery takeovers of nearly all 40 taps to special releases and meet-the-brewer nights, Rattle ’N’ Hum is a sizable, wood-dressed hotspot in midtown. Go beyond the rotating taps with 3 cask-conditioned beers (think Victory Yakima Glory) stationed at a separate bar, and another 100 or so bottles in the cooler. 14 E. 33rd St., rattlenhumbarnyc.com (serves food)

SPUYTEN DUYVIL
This cool Williamsburg haunt gives the hipster PBR trend no love on its selective but remarkable taps. Dive into the broad lineup from Belgium’s Cantillon, or stay stateside with Green Flash Palate Wrecker on cask. 359 Metropolitan Ave., spuytenduyvilnyc.com (serves food)

Historic NYC Bars

The Bridge Café, a wood-frame building erected in 1794 in the South Street Seaport, sits in the shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge even though it had already been in business for almost ninety years when the bridge was finished. In addition, when it was first built, before massive land-fill projects dramatically expanded the surface area of Lower Manhattan, the East River actually came up to the structure’s foundation.

Innovation across Cities

New York is quite an average city, marginally richer than its size might predict, not very inventive and quite safe (267th in violent crime). too many banksters, in other words.

Larger cities are disproportionately the centers of innovation, wealth and crime. We use these general urban laws to develop new urban metrics that disentangle dynamics at different scales and provide true measures of local urban performance. New rankings of cities and a novel and simpler perspective on urban systems emerge. We find that local urban dynamics display long-term memory, so cities under or outperforming their size expectation maintain such (dis)advantage for decades. Spatiotemporal correlation analyses reveal a novel functional taxonomy of US metropolitan areas that is generally not organized geographically but based instead on common local economic models, innovation strategies and patterns of crime.

20 Minutes in Manhattan

From the social gathering place of the city stoop to Washington Square Park, Sorkin’s walk takes the reader on a wry, humorous journey past local characters, neighborhood stores and bodegas, landmark buildings, and overlooked streets. His perambulations offer him—and the reader—opportunities to not only engage with his surroundings but to consider a wide range of issues that fascinate Sorkin as an architect, urbanist, and New Yorker. Whether he is despairing at street garbage or marveling at elevator etiquette, 20 Minutes in Manhattan offers a testing ground for his ideas of how the city can be newly imagined and designed, addressing such issues as the crisis of the environment, free expression and public space, historic preservation, and the future of the neighborhood as a concept.

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